Young German grenadier smiles for the camera sometime in The war is all but lost but he and his comrades persist. He is carrying a Panzerfaust (the German bazooka) and his chances of making it out alive diminish by the day. For the Reich and the Fuhrer.

Members of a Goering formed women's anti-aircraft auxiliary corps. Germans claim that women sharpshooters, shooting Americans in the back, found in Normandy, belong to such auxiliaries.

German civilians being helped by a soldier - Survivors after an air raid on Mannheim, Germany, Increasingly through 1944 Germany was bombed almost continuously and RAF air crew felt it was pay back time after the Blitz of 1941 on Britain.

Polish soldiers in Berlin after German capitulation May 1945 - pin by Paolo Marzioli

04 Jan The French Army uses experimental acoustic locator devices to pick up the sound of distant German aircraft engines and give their distance and location. Radar technology, however, will soon render these devices obsolete.